Thick skin is required when you blog and put your professional feelings out there. Here's what Jake
Swearingen of BNet blogs thought of my upcoming social networking experiment inside a real company:
"Kris Dunn’s HR Capitalist blog is normally pretty spot-on. But his idea of experimenting with a social network for his company is cute but dumb, like when puppies try to run and keep falling over."
Ouch...That's gonna leave a mark....
Actually, I laughed out loud when I read it. One of the things I said in my post, announcing my intent to use Ning to create an internal social network, is "we'll see"... I don't know if better engagement and communication is a natural outcome of an internal social network. It might be that we build it, try to put recurring content on it, and no one comes...
Still, running a few month's worth of an experiement on the topic seems worthwhile. If we can't make it work in a software company, where everyone lives off the web and email, then I don't think anyone can.
Of course, that's me, the giver. Jake's the guy having fun watching puppies stumble... PETA readers, let Jake know how you feel about that..
I'm out...
